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Become a raft guide, river kayak instructor, or coastal kayaking instructor with Outdoor Adventures as you prepare for a career (or hobby!) in the outdoor industry. Already working as a guide? Increase your marketability and improve your skills by taking a medical training course, Leave No Trace workshop, or one of our other safety training programs.

Adventure Rafting Company’s Whitewater Raft Guide Training is FUN, COMPREHENSIVE & SAFE! Students tell us that Raft Guide Training week is the most fun and challenging week of their life… We know that their future rafting experiences will top it! Working as a Rafting Guide is also one of the best ways to explore the outdoor recreation industry; gain confidence working with customers, learn valuable safety and rescue skills, become a reliable team player, and find out if adventure guiding is for you! Students in our Raft Guide Training courses include professionals, students, fire fighters, teachers, nurses, interns, and recreational paddlers. We hope you can join us too!

Our instructors will prepare you to work as a commercial rafting guide, or to plan your own trips as a competent private boater. Whether you’re looking for employment in the outdoor industry or just want to learn the ins and outs of rafting and reading the river for personal enjoyment, our training program is just what you’re looking for. Since 1983 Wave Trek (now Adventure Rafting Company) has produced world class whitewater river guides.

Working as a Sea Kayak Guide is a fun and rewarding experience! Guides often have the opportunity to travel, work with a variety of ages and skills levels, and help to create lasting memories.

The ACA Level 1-3 Coastal Kayaking Instructor Certification Workshop consists of 2 essential and required parts; the Instructor Development Workshop (IDW) and the Instructor Certification Exam (ICE). Our 4 or 5-day program is an intensive hands-on cooperative learning workshop experience that is designed to refine your instructional techniques and familiarize you with the processes and curriculum of the American Canoe Association (ACA). Days 3 and 4 (the “exam”) are assessment days which require all participants to prepare and present lessons to fellow students to demonstrate, among other essential skills, teaching and paddling abilities.

If you plan to spend time working or playing in the backcountry then you need to be prepared. Fast paced and hands-on, this two and a half-day course covers a wide range of wilderness medicine topics for people who travel and work in the outdoors.

The American Canoe Association (ACA) Raft Instructor Course is an instructional program for experienced rafting guides (generally 2+ years of recent regular guide work). The course includes both on-water and classroom training and demonstrations.

This Intensive Class III-V Raft Guide Training course is for commercial and private boaters with extensive experience on rivers up to Class III. If you are looking to increase your skills and challenge yourself on the Skykomish River’s Class III-V whitewater, then this is the class for you!

Working as a Whitewater Kayaking Guide and Paddling Instructor is a fun and rewarding experience! Guides often have the opportunity to travel, work with a variety of ages and skills levels, and help to create lasting memories.

The ACA Level 1-4 Whitewater Kayaking Instructor Certification Workshop consists of 2 essential and required parts; the Instructor Development Workshop (IDW) and the Instructor Certification Exam (ICE). Our 4 or 5-day program is an intensive hands-on cooperative learning workshop experience that is designed to refine your instructional techniques and familiarize you with the processes and curriculum of the American Canoe Association (ACA). The final days of the course are assessment days (the “exam”) which require all participants to prepare and present lessons to fellow students to demonstrate, among other essential skills, teaching and paddling abilities.

Swiftwater Rescue Technician (SRT1) training is designed to help prepare you for emergency situations that occur in moving water. It is a 3-day intensive, hands-on course that includes classroom time and on-water scenarios. Class is taught by certified Rescue 3 International instructors.